Saturday, October 27, 2007

This week's Sunday Scribbling's prompt is "hospitals". I set out to write a beautiful, life-affirming piece about the time I've spent helping newborn babies and mothers to breastfeed, but this came out instead.Two strangersin a hallway cold and greenpassing each otherand antiseptic washin dispensers by each numbered door"To Help Protect Our Patients"Strange smellshospital smellsillnessand meat loafmingle with cleaning fluidpushed on a cartHesitant smilesa querying glance quickly veiledis their news goodis it better than oursno, mustn't askThe next daythe same faceback againjust like youperhaps it's timeto share a smileor a coffeeMaybea fleeting momentwith a kindred spiritwill make it easier to returnto that numbered roomyet again

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LOL...meatloaf...argh...I forgot about that awful hospital food. I remember them telling me to eat because I was nursing. I kept saying, I will when you bring me something edible...lol Hubby snuck in most of my food. ;)

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